§ 51.54 Discriminatory purpose and effect.
This argument loses sight of the real purpose and effect of this and kindred statutes.
As shown below, exterior product designs share a regulable purpose and effect with commercial speech.
The proceedings at issue here are civil, not criminal, and we assume that they are nonpunitive in purpose and effect.
Suddenly designers are asking big questions about "purpose" and "effect," re-examining the system on which they rest.
But the state law, it said, had "the purpose and effect of prohibiting it" from offering broadband.
Rather, the main point here is that as long as advertising and exterior product designs have a similar purpose and effect — regardless of what that purpose and effect are — they are, to a large extent, functionally similar.
This is said to be precisely the same in purpose and effect as to deny invention for want of novelty.
In purpose and effect it is primarily a sanction to enforce the regulatory provisions of the Act.
Instead, the purpose and effect have been to end discrimination and require that admission decisions be based on which students are the best qualified.
In the court's view the "necessitous medical use on an individual basis … is in conflict with the purpose and effect of the legislative scheme".
